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how do we know that it's Femina and Mascula in french language?
Aug 26, 2011 8:03 AM
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Here are some suffixes that usually indicate masculine nouns, as well as some important exceptions.
-age
Exceptions: la cage, une image, la nage, la page, la plage, la rage
-b
-ble
Exceptions: une cible, une étable, une fable, une table
-c
Exception: la fac (apocope of la faculté)
-cle
Exception: une boucle
-d
-de
Exceptions: la bride, la merde, la méthode, la pinède; -ade, -nde, -ude endings
-é
Exceptions: la clé, la psyché; sé, té, and tié endings
-eau
Exceptions: l'eau, la peau
-ège
Exception: la Norvège
-et
-eur
Note: this applies mainly to names of professions and mechanical/scientific things; also see -eur on the feminine endings page
-f
Exceptions: la soif, la clef, la nef
-i
Exceptions: la foi, la fourmi, la loi, la paroi
-ing
-isme
-k
-l
-m
Exception: la faim
-me
Exceptions: une alarme, une âme, une arme, la cime, la coutume, la crème, l'écume, une énigme, une estime, une ferme, une firme, une forme, une larme, une plume, une rame, une rime, -mme ending
-ment
Exception: une jument
-n
Exceptions: la façon, la fin, la leçon, la main, la maman, la rançon; -son and -ion endings
-o
Exceptions: la dactylo, la dynamo, la libido, la météo, la moto, la steno (most of these are apocopes of longer feminine words)
-oir
-one
-ou
-p
-r
Exceptions: la chair, la cour, la cuiller, la mer, la tour (see feminine -eur)
-s
Exceptions: la brebis, la fois, une oasis, la souris, la vis
-ste
Exceptions: la liste, la modiste, la piste; names for people like un(e) artiste, un(e) nudiste, etc.
-t
Exceptions: la dent, la dot, la forêt, la jument, la mort, la nuit, la part, la plupart
-tre
Exceptions: la fenêtre, une huître, la lettre, la montre, la rencontre, la vitre
-u
Exceptions: l'eau, la peau, la tribu, la vertu
-x
Exceptions: la croix, la noix, la paix, la toux, la voix
August 27, 2011
@august : in the French language, an understanding of the Femina and mascula very important. so we are not wrong in saying a thing.
August 26, 2011
Bonjour,
There are some rules but very often you need to practice a lot and remember it...
I think it is the most difficult thing to learn in French.
If you need some lessons, you can contact me...
August 26, 2011
Femina et Mascula i'm sorry friend i dont know
August 26, 2011
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